Institutional Review Board for Human Participants

IRB Newsletters

Published periodically to assist students and other new researchers in the preparation of their human participant protocols, these newsletters also contain new and changing regulations in human participant research as well as other information of interest to researchers.

Revised Decision Tree: Does your research project need review by the IRB office?; New IRB Guidance: Research Involving Existing or Secondary Data, Documents or Records, IRB Review of International Research, and Oral and Life Histories, Case Studies and Journalism; IRB Protocol Help Sessions/Workshops - dates and locations; How long will it take for my IRB Application to get approved?; New - Check completion status of IRB Training; Having trouble downloading IRB PDF forms?

Collaborating with Researchers at Other Institutions; Avoid Common Mistakes When Using Email for Research with Human Participants; Amendment Requirements; Using the IRB's Informed Consent Templates; Interested in conducting human participant research on genetics? NIH may have a training course for you.

Ethicspoint: A new resource for reporting a concern or complaint/Additional verbiage required on Consent forms/Standard Operating Procedures for IRB/Some tips for researchers engaged in International Research

Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs: What it means to you (the investigator) / Investigator education requirements are being stepped up / *NEW* Performance Agreement and Release Form / Tips on determining if your protocol will require a full committee review / General Principles for Evaluating Oral History type Activities / Human Subject Exemption Categories

Increasing parental consent response rates / Ideas for making a study "exempt from further review / Hidden videotaping / How to construct a good consent form (primarily for students) / Recruiting Cornell faculty and staff as research participants